director

Naveen Chaubal is a Louisville based director, producer and cinematographer. He’s a fellow of Film Independent's Project: Involve and Fast Track programs. His short film “Pinball” screened at the DGA, Speed Art Museum, Montana International Film Festival, KC Film Fest and premiered online on NoBudge, where it won Audience Choice. He co-produced and co-shot Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary that premiered at Tribeca, where it was named “Best of the Fest” by the Wall Street Journal. It also screened at Hot Docs and CPH:DOX. Naveen has worked for AJ+, Vice News, and Bon Appetit, and has produced music videos for James Blake, Vince Staples and Frank Ocean. Naveen’s work has been supported by ITVS, the Southern Documentary Fund, New Orleans Film Society, and Louisville Visual Art.

producer/writer

Bryn produced and edited Pinball the short film and has been on the journey with Naveen and Yosef in Louisville from the beginning. She was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She post-produced and edited a DACA PSA “Are you afraid of Monsters?,” which was honored at the Webby’s in the category “best film - public service & activism.” Bryn is an Associate Programmer for Tribeca. She was a Southern Producer’s Lab fellow with the New Orleans Film Society in 2020 and 2021.

consulting producer

Darcy is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans. McKinnon’s recent work includes Look at Me! XXXTENTACION (dir. Sabaah Folayan, 2022) and The Neutral Ground (dir. CJ Hunt, 2021). McKinnon is currently in production on Nailah Jefferson’s Commuted, Katie Mathews’ Roleplay, and Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’ The First Plantation among others. Her prior work, A Fine Girl, Animals, Maquilapolis and Live Nude Girls, UNITE! has screened and been broadcast internationally, and has been supported by SFFILM, CAAM, Chicken and Egg, Firelight Media, ITVS, Black Public Media, Sundance Institute and the Tribeca Film Institute. Darcy is an alum of the Impact Partners Producing Fellowship, the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship, and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2020 25 new faces in independent film.

composer

Will is a composer, recording artist and multi-instrumentalist born in New York City. He has performed internationally, released records of songs under his High Water moniker, and composed music for film, installation and dance performance. In addition to recently completing the score for the HBO documentary Baby God, Will has worked with the dance company Gallim on major pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Joyce Theater and Jacob’s Pillow as well as collaborating on projects with renowned artists such as Marilyn Minter and Laurie Simmons. He is a regular fixture in New York’s improvised music scene and has released multiple collections of work with the independent label Other People.

executive producer

Sanjay Sharma is the founder and CEO of Marginal Mediaworks. MARGINAL is a new media studio focused on popular storytelling genres from outsider voices, across all formats – from controlled budget film & television, to interactive series and podcasts. 

Sharma began his career at Warner Bros. Pictures, working across major motion picture franchises, as well as indie films and the games studio. He left the film business in favor of technology startups, joining advertising high flyer Spot Runner (Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, WPP, IPG, CBS, Tudor Capital) as an early employee. Prior to MARGINAL, Sharma was most recently the Chief Executive and co-founder of ALL DEF Media, a leading media brand in hip hop and urban content, where he drew the support of a broad range of investors including Greycroft Partners, WPP, Advancit Capital, Bryant Stibel, Andreessen Horowitz, Third Wave, and Universal Music Group. 

Sharma has spent his career at the intersection of media and technology, and currently is an advisor or board member to a wide range of entertainment and technology companies including Mars Reel, Skybound Entertainment, EmoJam, Fourth Wave Blockchain Incubator, Culture Genesis and HEIR, through his advisory and investment firm, Short Message Service.  He chairs the board of CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment; is a founding member of Gold House, an Asian-American collective of leaders in the arts, finance and technology.

executive producer

Milan Chakraborty, Head of Film at Marginal MediaWorks, oversees all of the company’s efforts in independent, studio and streaming film and TV. He is a 20 year veteran of the film industry. Milan worked at Warner Bros and New Line Cinema in production finance and accounting on projects including Batman Begins, Superman Returns, History of Violence and V for Vendetta. Milan began independently producing in 2008 and has produced and executive produced over 30 features including My Friend Dahmer, Assassination Nation, Plus One, The Dark & the Wicked, multiple Spirit Award nominee The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain. He executive produced his first documentary, BLACK BARBIE: A Documentary (SXSW 2023) directed by Lagueria Davis, which received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Popular Culture Program in 2025.

Most recently, he produced She Taught Love which premiered on HULU in September 2024 and was recently nominated for an NAACP Image Award.